Next, Lin Yu read two more guides about starting out. One covered money-making quests available in the newbie village. To be honest, none of the quests there seemed suitable for Lin Yu.
With a maximum stamina of only five points, Lin Yu was utterly unsuited for chopping wood or mining, both of which consumed stamina.
As for hunting and gathering herbs, Lin Yu decided against those too. Without knowing a single spell, going out hunting would probably mean becoming monster food.
So what was there to do?
After thinking it over, Lin Yu really couldn't come up with any suitable quests.
"Forget it. I'll stop thinking about it and figure out how to play the game first! Saving money can wait. My class starts with more money anyway."
Having decided what to do next, Lin Yu resolved to figure out how to fly first. The Mixed-Blood Fairy race had a flight trait. Once Lin Yu learned to fly and picked up some magic, flying high and bullying monsters that couldn't fly would be possible.
But how did flying work?
The moment the thought of flying arose, Lin Yu's body slowly lifted off the ground.
"Huh? Whoa, whoa!" Lin Yu cried out repeatedly as the body suddenly rose into the air.
An instinctive attempt to steady the body in midair only sent Lin Yu tumbling through several somersaults.
"Urgh." After a few more somersaults, Lin Yu finally steadied against a nearby wall. Intense dizziness brought on a bout of dry heaving.
After resting for a while, Lin Yu finally recovered.
Remembering what had just happened, Lin Yu didn't dare move carelessly again, afraid that one overly large movement would send the body tumbling through the air.
Lin Yu cautiously tried twisting the body and, after making sure nothing went wrong again, began experimenting little by little to figure out how to fly.
Walking forward, running, doing the breaststroke, twisting—the body remained fixed in midair, motionless no matter what pose Lin Yu tried.
After discovering that none of those movements seemed to do anything, Lin Yu gave up.
How did flying work? Could it be...?
As the thought of moving forward arose in Lin Yu's mind, the body slowly began to drift forward.
After discovering that flight could be controlled simply by issuing commands mentally, Lin Yu immediately started playing around.
Forward, back, left, right, up, down, landing and taking off again, a full 360-degree spin in the air.
After playing around for a while, Lin Yu finally had enough.
Once Lin Yu could fly, a new problem appeared: flying this way was too inflexible. Changing direction required a mental command, and the controls felt as convenient as flying in MC Creative Mode.
Was there a way to change the flight method and make it more flexible?
With that thought in mind, Lin Yu floated in midair and silently summoned the panel to search through it.
"There really is!" Looking at the panel's option to enable system-assisted flight, Lin Yu had actually found a way to change it.
The moment Lin Yu pressed the button to disable system assistance, the body dropped straight toward the ground.
Watching the ground rush closer, Lin Yu hurriedly enabled system-assisted flight and silently commanded a stop.
With the ground only a few centimeters away, Lin Yu silently wiped away cold sweat.
After righting the body and landing safely, Lin Yu ignored the stares of several passersby who had just witnessed the whole thing and silently breathed a sigh of relief.
That had been close. A little closer and Lin Yu's head would have been smashed open. Given how Era operated, it surely had fall damage, and with only five health points, a fall from that height would definitely have been fatal.
If Lin Yu really had fallen to death, would other people put that death on a list of Era's stupidest ways to die?
That had been stupid. System assistance should have been disabled while standing on the ground, not in midair.
Once steady on the ground, Lin Yu disabled system assistance again.
"How do I fly? There's no space bar for me to double-tap to take off!" After trying for a while, Lin Yu discovered a serious problem: flying was impossible. No matter what controls Lin Yu tried, the body wouldn't take off.
Imagining taking off was no use. With system assistance disabled, Lin Yu seemed to have lost the ability to fly.
After confirming that taking off really was impossible without system assistance, Lin Yu had no choice but to turn it back on.
"Sigh, I thought flying would be easy!" After that casual remark, Lin Yu began to consider what to do next.
During the time spent browsing the forum, Lin Yu had already gotten a general understanding of the panel. As things stood, figuring out flight wasn't going to happen anytime soon, so assisted flight would have to do for now.
So what next?
"Right, I almost forgot about the library. My class doesn't have a meditation method. If the library sells skill books, it should sell cultivation methods too, right?" After thinking for a while, Lin Yu finally remembered that the chosen class had no cultivation method.
"The library, the library... where is it?"
Lin Yu mentally issued a command to ascend, and the body slowly floated into the air. After reaching a sufficient height, Lin Yu stopped ascending.
Looking down at the rows of houses, Lin Yu recalled the picture of the library from the forum and compared it with the buildings below, one by one.
Soon, Lin Yu found a building that resembled the library in the picture.
After mentally issuing a command to move forward, Lin Yu soon flew up to the building.
Lin Yu looked at the various magic runes engraved on the building's walls and compared them with the picture of the library.
That's right. This should be the place.
After confirming that this was the library, Lin Yu pushed open the door and floated inside.
Big. It's so big, and there are so many books!
Only after a quick look around did Lin Yu notice an elderly man in a white robe sitting behind the counter by the library entrance.
That should be the library's NPC, Lin Yu thought, looking at the old man behind the counter.
As Lin Yu approached, the old man, who had been sitting quietly behind the counter, spoke. "Buying or borrowing?"
"Borrowing," Lin Yu answered without a second thought.
With the 20,000% boost to learning efficiency granted by Heaven's Jealousy of Geniuses, Lin Yu believed borrowing would definitely be more beneficial than buying skill books.
Hearing the answer, the white-robed old man spoke again. "Borrowing costs 50 copper coins per hour."
At his words, Lin Yu silently opened the inventory, selected a silver coin, and took it out.
Looking at the counter, which was a head taller, Lin Yu silently flew a little higher.
Lin Yu placed the silver coin on the counter, pushed it toward the old man, and quietly waited for him to act.